: Mosaic,are you saying that you can
: oonly drink coffee or tea when you
: are having a meal? do you have to
: do that on step 3?

No, Leigh, I drank caffeinated coffee all the way thorough the steps. I didnt think I would ever stop it.

but with step 6 something funny happened by itself. I didnt fancy coffee much. I was surprised. I did move it to meals at that point, having learnt that technique at step 3

where I learnt it wasnt as much fun at all as having it elsewhere That was telling. I think I was very addicted to caffeine. I did a taper as Kathleens instructions, and since then I have chosen decaf, I have some in my shake and a couple or three during the day.

.I don't think
: that even on step 3 I am going to
: be able to limit it to mealtime
: only. Will that mean I am not
: going to be able to do step 3
: correctly and it won't work if I
: cannot yet limit it to
: mealtime

What I discovered about step 3 = its got some nano steps and guidelines and yet its incredibly individual. So I dont think theres any concern with any of us doing step 3 'correctly' We experience things and learn a lot So you dont have to worry about it at all in advance. Or even when you are there ...

... I know this because I worried like mad about everything in advance and then it did just flow by itself... Ilearnt to focus on the step I was on. ( I thought that was impossible as well )

So I was impressed to read your earlier post about shakes and sharing your thoughts, asking for others experiences it was a great bit of step 1 work